iOS 7 is out! Go get it!

That time we've been waiting for since June is finally here - iOS 7 is out in the world. Reports are flooding in that people are able to download the new update. If you've been waiting, fire up Software Update on your phone and do it over the air, or get ready to download the update through iTunes once it's available.

That's assuming we haven't talked you out of it at this point. Just make sure you've backed up your iOS device first. Better safe than sorry! Also make sure you have enough free space: the download measures over 3 GB, installed over the air.

Expect unprecedented demand for the new release - there are more iOS devices in the world than ever, and iOS 7's release has been very well publicized. Don't be surprised if you get errors or see slow download times; just be patient, try again later, and upgrade when you can.

Are you looking forward to iOS 7? Have you been using it during its extensive beta period? Sound off in the comments! And for more information on iOS 7, check out these links:

It went available a few minutes before 10 EST for me. In my iPhone 4S, it started with 6hrs, now, after a few minutes it says 2hrs remaining. (I'm in Buenos Aires, Argentina). In my iPad 2 it said 14 minutes remaining, but then it failed (I'm sure because I was doing the manual backup to iTunes while downloading the update to iOS 7 thru wifi)

Can somebody PLEASE tell me WHY my iTunes will not update to 11.1.....Windows 7 (I go to check for updates within iTunes and it says 11.05 is current, yet I need 11.1). Also, can someone PLEASE tell me why (always happens) I cannot download iTunes directly from Apple.com....I click download and it takes me to the Thank you for downloading page, yet NOTHING pops up to save. Help. I need a Mac! ;-)

I'm having the same problem, won't even download 11.1
Version 11.05 keeps telling me iOS 6.1.4 is the current version too. Typical Apple mess, their servers always suck. I don't even know why I try on the first day anymore.

I tried IE (didn't have Safari but that is actually a good idea so thanks for that!), but I WAS able to download it try after try after try (one restart of windows laptop). It did take a while to download, it just finished, usually its 2 or 3 mins if that, but this was like 8 minutes, but as expected, we just need to be patient with the downloads today....wait it out a bit, don't get frustrated, because everyone and their monkeys are downloading itunes, ios 7 etc. Sooooo pages will take a long time to load, fail, restart, etc. Thanks for the love ya'll. Btw, I got annoyed because I did have issues installing itunes before and not when a big release was out. It would just not save at all. So thats why I went crazy. Haha. Oh and I did it through Firefox anyway. Thanks guys! Enjoy iOS 7. It's really beautiful.

Installing on my iPhone here in Western Australia - started as soon as Peter's article published. Waited a few minutes before updating my iPad and no dice - an error message. I expect the servers are being hammered now.

On the iPad mini I get a "unable to check for update" "an error occurred while checking for a software update" I may or may not have gotten the GM on my iPhone last week sooo idk about that one. iTunes 11.1 was no issue for my MBP

This is why I don't like doing OTA as everyone is saying it is failing. Why don't they put it in iTunes? much cleaner install. I guess they have to quit signing 6.1.4 first or something. I'm trying OTA on my iPad but waiting for iTunes for my iPhone 5.

Ah, got a facebook notification then the wonderful FAILED message.... Come on Apple!

7.0.1 has been released for iphone 5S and 5C, a few bug fixes for IOS on those devices. So maybe if your thinking you shouldn't upgrade to IOS 7..... yet, it would seam Apple is monitoring how things are going and quickly releasing updates.

it wont come for gm by OTA or itunes. restore to 6.1.4 by restore method after downloading ipsw. then as ur phone boots upp with ios 6.1.4 u will can check for updates on phone. it will show.. mine is working

Wife is downloading OTA on iPhone 5, I am downloading on iPad 4. I'm being the test subject for her iPad 3. Going very smoothly here in the Land of Lincoln. Both have finished downloading and are preparing the update. Here's hoping we didn't make a mistake.:-) Funny I never feel this way way when upgrading my Droid and Nexus 10. Oh well here's to being among the first! Happy upgrade everyone.

On my 2nd attempt at downloading now, and I'm down to 4 minutes remaining. It's bounced back and forth, though, so I can be at 4 minutes remaining, then I'm at 7, then back, down to 4....fingers and toes crossed that I don't get a failure after making it this far.

ok, so people are sending conflicting msgs here? if we have the GM on the ip5 of ios7, is it the same as the update released today, or should we downgrade to 6.1.4 & re-install ios7? is there any benefits to doing so, or are we fine running the GM? Thanks.

New to the forum, I wanted to ask someone in here directly....Are there different update times for different products...I have an iphone4, & I attempted to DL the update, but a message generated after it attempted to DL that said version not available, any ideas?

Success! Now I just have to change my background, its larger than the screen. Wife's iPhone looks good too. Now we're trying to get the iPad 3 going. Already had one failure. Retrying and hoping it works. From what I have seen looks like most if not all my apps upgraded before the update.

Downloading update... done. Processing update... done. Verifying update... after about a minute I get the message "Software update is not available at this time. Please try again later." I don't get it, I've already downloaded and processed the update, what's not available???

Another failure on iPad 3. Got all downloaded or so we thought and while preparing update suddenly said software update not available. Should have done all 3 at same time. Will try later when the states go to bed.

After successfully downloading ios7 on my iPad (4th gen), I was stuck during the verification process. It took over a dozen tries to begin installation. Waiting to see what's behind the black screen and glowing Apple icon!!!!

I had the issue for the last couple of hours. I got the downloads to finish a while ago, but then couldn't actually do the install. Both my iPad 3 and my mini just started to work at the same time. They are installing now as we speak!

I jumped in at 12:59 EST and downloaded pretty quickly. No issues with the install. One funny thing that I've noticed, though: Rene demonstrated a gesture in Mail and Messages that doesn't seem to work for me. He swiped from left to right which moved "up" a level, i.e. from a message to the list of messages. Is this gesture not enabled on the 4s, or is something I need to turn on somewhere in settings, does anyone know? Thanks!

If you do the OTA update and after the download it sits at "Verifying Update" then says The Update is Unavailable then just turn wifi off and try it again and it should whizz through. If not then turn wifi off, turn the device off and leave it off for 5mins, turn it back on and then re-enable wifi and start the download again and it should complete properly.

NB. If you have to result to the last method of turning off the device for 5mins then you will have to download the entire update again.

Ok, got my iOS 7 and like it. For now it works and does well. Let's hope it holds up to its expectations. I'm running it on iPad 2 so it's not as pretty as on retina display, but still very nice and smooth. Little flat and something getting used to. I really enjoying the new animations and transitions. Web also much better for bookmarks and surfing. It's interesting how now to kill the app you have to do what HTC One does. Will see... Miss the quick post for Facebook and Twitter though.

since i got off work today.. 6 hours and i dont know how many tries and so much errors.. back and forth with over the air and itunes but i finally got ios 7 on my iphone 5.. so tired from this dont even really have time to play around with it.. tmw is another day

Interesting, it never showed up on OTA (I have 7 Beta 6), so I am downloading manually and performing via iTunes. Note that you need the new version of iTunes in order to install iOS 7 on your device. Also note that AirDrop (where you can share data wirelessly between iDevices) is only supported on iPhone 5 and later. I am not sure about AirDrop on iPads, because iOS 7 goes back to iPad 2.

HELP! Started the download at almost 10 hours ago. Woke up to find 1/4 of the way done. I thought it had stalled so restarted it, now it won't move on the bar....have to work today. Any suggestions? Can I can I stop the load process?